I have to have a seat at the table. I have to have a say on how we, as African-Americans, are produced… — Byron Allen Copy Share Image
When things aren't going well for black people, they blame the government. When things aren't going well for white people, they can't… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
Black people in America have come from slavery to other forms of being oppressed and there are some things that come with… — Common Copy Share Image
“As I've reflected back on both, I realize that my neighborhood was just like The Wire. We had the drug dealing, the… — Baratunde R. Thurston Copy Share Image
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Anyone who understands anti-racist work, a white person specifically, understands that it is not black people's responsibility, or any person of color's… — Kelela Copy Share Image
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part… — Alicia Garza Copy Share Image
“I have never been this white anywhere in the world. I've never had the most obvious, most useful kind of privilege as… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“One of racism’s harms is the way it falls on the unexceptional Black person who is asked to be extraordinary just to… — Ibram X. Kendi Copy Share Image
“It has come to my attention lately,” he says, “that sales are up on suntan lotion and sunblock. Now who do you… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“This might not mean much to you right now, but fer what it's worth, I'll tell you. Maybe I know better'n most.… — Moira Young Copy Share Image
Brothers and sisters, white people will come in to chastise us. But since we are no longer forsaken, and are the people… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
The idea of going down to Central or South American and taking ayahuasca and shitting my pants and puking in a circle… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And… — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them"… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
“People buy into this false notion of reverse racism, where they believe that just because there’s a group of people getting together… — Simon S. Tam Copy Share Image
It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“The matter came up for judicial investigation, but as might have been expected, the white people concluded it was unnecessary to wait… — Ida B. Wells-Barnett Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, and this is a big theme of mine, I'm not interested in white people loving me. It's… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Somebody has been cashing checks, and they've been bouncing back on us. And these people, the poor class of Negroes and the… — Howlin' Wolf Copy Share Image
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are… — Jane Elliott Copy Share Image
As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
No matter where you go your always gonna be judged. Older folks judging young people for how they dress. Young kids thinking… — Tiz Copy Share Image
I know that sounds really extreme, but if you just look at the history, you will find Harry Anslinger [first U.S. commissioner… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
It's a totally different spiel when I talk at Morehouse. But when I'm talking at MIT? At the University of Cincinnati? I'm… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don't belong… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes,… — Narada Michael Walden Copy Share Image
Black folk who don't realize I'm mixed will treat me like I'm some racist person, or when white people find out I'm… — Logic Copy Share Image
I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
“White people are drawn to farmer’s markets like moths to a flame. In fact, white people have such strong instincts that if… — Christian Lander Copy Share Image
As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar.… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
“Russians are easy to spot, even if you dress them like Buckingham Palace guards. They are “the white people who look seriously… — Pavel Tsatsouline Copy Share Image
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
When I looked at 'Dear White People,' you have four African-American students who are all very different and who are trying to… — Teyonah Parris Copy Share Image
Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
![“We [black people] don't respect our elders. Besides artists, we don't respect Frederick Douglass. We don't respect Martin Luther King. You look at every Martin Luther King Boulevard out here, and it's a crack block. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just…” quote by KRS-One](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92d/krs-one-2404_art_we-black-people-don-t-respect-our-elders_1985041.png)
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